The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - Trailer legislation related to the 2021 ‑22 budget package required that, beginning in 2022 ‑23, all LEAs provide one free breakfast and one free lunch per school day to any student requesting a meal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Beginning in 2022 ‑23, districts must maintain, on average, 1 adult for every 12 TK students at each school site. In 2024 ‑25, districts will receive $3,077 per TK ADA as an add ‑on to the LCFF base grant to cover the associated costs of this requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - Update on Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant (LREBG) Established in 2022 ‑23. The  June  2022 budget created the LREBG to support learning recovery efforts in schools and the social and emotional well ‑being of students and staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - These estimates are based on projections that the number of interested applicants would increase by 48  percent annually —the growth for the program from 2022 ‑23 to 2023 ‑24. We think growth of this magnitude is unlikely to continue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the state provided $200  million for a competitive grant program aimed at increasing programs that provide high school students with access to college level courses. Of this amount, $100  million was available for grants of up to $250,000 to plan and start up middle and early college high schools on K ‑12 school sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - (Prior to the implementation of the quality incentive payment as 10  percent of the total rate, the state began providing some smaller, one ‑time quality incentive payments on top of providers ’ baseline rates in 2022 ‑23.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Beginning in 2022 ‑23, Tier  1 districts have been subject to higher requirements. Specifically, these programs must offer the program to all TK through grade 6 students in classroom ‑based settings and provide access to  all students whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the Center raised Fellows salaries by 9.75  percent, up to the current level of $3,253 per month. If adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index (CA CPI), that monthly salary rate would be $3,447 in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989